Recipes

Connect Multiple Channels

If there are multiple channels to connect, using searchw() might not be efficient, because it connects each channel sequentially. A better approach is to create the channels and flush the search request at once.

from CaChannel import ca, CaChannel
chans = {pvname: CaChannel(pvname) for pvname in ['pv1', 'pv2', 'pv3', ...]}
for chan in chans.values():
    chan.search()
# call pend_io on either of the channels and the it will flush the requests and wait for completion
# if connection does not complete in 10 seconds, CaChannelException is raised with status ca.ECA_TIMEOUT
chans['pv1'].pend_io(10)

Get String of Enum

from CaChannel import ca, CaChannel
chan = CaChannel('myEnumPV')
chan.searhw()
print(chan.getw(ca.DBR_STRING))

Get Control Information

from CaChannel import ca, CaChannel
chan = CaChannel('myPV')
chan.searhw()
print(chan.getw(ca.dbf_type_to_DBR_CTRL(chan.field_type())))

Get Wavefrom as Numpy Array

• At function level

  from CaChannel import ca, CaChannel
  chan = CaChanne('myWaveformPV')
  print(chan.getw(use_numpy=True))
  

• At module level

  import CaChannel
  CaChannel.USE_NUMPY = True
  chan = CaChannel.CaChanne('myWaveformPV')
  print(chan.getw())